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Coping with my own way: Mediating roles of emotional expression and social support seeking in the associations between individual differences and posttraumatic growth.
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- The utility of coping through emotional approach: A meta-analysis.Health psychology : official journal of the Division of Health Psychology, American Psychological Association · 2024Pooled it
- Suicidal incidence and gender-based discrepancies in prolonged grief disorder: insights from a meta-analysis and systematic review.Frontiers in psychiatry · 2024Pooled it
- Flourishing through Social Development Activities and Social Support: A Holistic Strategy for Problematic Smartphone Use.The Psychiatric quarterly · 2025Article
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- Emotional processing is not enough: relations among resilience, emotional approach coping, and posttraumatic stress symptoms among combat veterans.Frontiers in psychology · 2024Article
- [A Structural Equation Model for Posttraumatic Growth among Cured Patients with COVID-19].Journal of Korean Academy of Nursing · 2023Review
- The relationship between childhood maltreatment and social anxiety among Chinese male individuals with drug use disorders: a moderated mediation model of fear of negative evaluation and self-construals.Frontiers in psychology · 2023Article
- A latent profile analysis of emotional expression among patients with unintentional injuries.BMC psychiatry · 2022Article
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Abstract
This study examined the associations between individual differences and posttraumatic growth, and coping strategies as mediators among 454 trauma-exposed American college students. Results showed that relational-interdependent self-construal, optimism, emotional expression, and social support seeking were associated with higher posttraumatic growth. Moreover, social support seeking and emotional expression partially mediated between relational-interdependent self-construal and posttraumatic growth, such that relational-interdependent self-construal was associated with posttraumatic growth through increased support seeking and emotional expression. However, the association between optimism and posttraumatic growth was partially mediated only by increased emotional expression, but not social support seeking. Findings imply that individual differences may facilitate posttraumatic growth through different coping mechanisms.
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